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The QDDR is Coming...

It’s got an unwieldy
name -- the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review -- but the results of
this study could help make U.S. foreign aid assistance more effective in
promoting development and reducing poverty. This was the goal of Bread’s Offering
of Letters campaign last year.

Conducted by the
State Department, the QDDR takes a look at all aspects of U.S. development
policy; the goal is to harmonize the work of foreign assistance programs that
are currently scattered across the U.S. government. The complete review will be
finished this summer, but initial results are expected soon.

If you’d like to
keep tabs on the QDDR, as well as the impact its results may have, check out
the new blog series from the Modernizing Foreign
Assistance Network (MFAN), a coalition of international development and
foreign policy organizations.

In the series’
third installment, David Beckman, Bread president and co-chair of MFAN, writes
that unless the United States has a strong development agency that
can think clearly about what’s good for poor people, our foreign assistance is
unlikely to reduce poverty effectively. “Reducing poverty around the world is
important to U.S. national security,” he writes, “but our government will not
be as effective in reducing poverty if our self-interest motives are mixed into
the planning at every step in the process.”

For MFAN’s quick short takes on foreign assistance reform
(140 characters or less), sign up for their Twitter updates.

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